Most Entertaining Ranking of top 12

[mcjordansc]

1) Blue Stars

2) Cadets

3) Crown

4) Blue Devils

5) Cavaliers

6) Bluecoats

7) Madison

8) Phantom

9) Boston

10) Blue Knights

11) SCV

12) Glassmen

[Lead]

From watching every corps at Finals:

1 - Madison Scouts

2 - Cadets

3 - Phantom Regiment

4 - Cavaliers

5 - Carolina Crown

6 - Blue Devils (just because I didn't like the show doesn't mean they were not entertaining - I was glued to it waiting to see/hear what happened next)

7 - Blue Stars

8 - Santa Clara Vanguard

9 - Bluecoats

10 - Glassmen

11 - Blue Knights

12 - Boston Crusaders

[mgarside83]

1. Cavaliers

2. Crown

3. Phantom

4. Bluecoats

5. Blue Devils

6. Blue Stars

7. Madison

8. Boston

9. Glassmen

10. SCV

11. Blue Knights

12. Cadets

[MelloNell]

1. Madison - Loved the goose bumps. Have missed those in drums corps for several years.

2. Phantom - Can't explain it, but I loved this show.

3. Crown - Wow, very entertaining the whole way through.

4. Cavies - This one grew on me.

5. Cadets - Thought it was a great show.

6. Blue Knights - Great show and loved the painted flags again.

7. SCV - Some parts were OMG WOW and some were omzzzzzz

8. Glassmen - I liked their show this year.

9. Boston - Cool concept Boston has won me over

10. Blue Coats - Only saving grace was that they didn't clutter the field with mirrors, just microphones.

11.Blue Devils - If they would only have played La Suerta instead of running it through the cuisinart.

12. Blue Stars - They didn't make me want to care about their theme. Sorry.

That being said, I think that this was a stellar year in DCI for entertainment. Everyone brought something different to the table. Unfortunately BD left the chairs behind so no one could sit down.

[cymbalmom]

Great job to all the corps members! It was a fabulous finals week!

Cavaliers

Cadets

Madison Scouts

Bluecoats

Blue Stars

Boston Crusaders

Blue Knights

Phantom Regiment

Santa Clara Vanguard

Carolina Crown

Blue Devils

Glassmen

[chasgroh]

Blue Stars

Blue Devils

Cavies

'Coats

Gahfield Cadets

Blue Knights

Madison

Boston

Phantom

Crown

SCV

Glassmen

EH!

cg

[MN DCI Fan]

1. Carolina Crown

2. Blue Knights

3. The Cavaliers

4. Bluecoats

5. Phantom Regiment

6. Madison Scouts

7. Santa Clara Vanguard

8. Blue Devils

9. The Cadets

10. Blue Stars

11. Boston Crusaders

12. Glassmen

[bluecoats88]

and here are the final results.

giving 1 point for a 1st place vote and 12 points for a 12th place vote.

Based on who entertained us. Here's the top twelve

1.) Madison Scouts 232

2.) Cavaliers 242

3.) Carolina Crown 308

4.) Phantom Regiment 328

5.) Bluecoats 335

6.) Cadets 360

7.) Blue Stars 437

8.) Blue Knights 478

9.) Boston Crusaders 512

10.) Santa Clara Vanguard 519

11.) Blue Devils 524

12.) Glassmen 707

[cajal]

1. Carolina Crown

2. Blue Devils

3. Bluecoats

4. Blue Knights

5. Madison Scouts

6. Cadets

7. Phantom Regiment

8. Santa Clara Vanguard

9. Cavaliers

10. Blue Stars

11. Glassmen

12. Boston Crusaders

[WestCoaster]

You do realize they are playing into the mics to change the pitch/tone of what's being played not to make it louder right?

As a matter of fact I heard at one show the mic for the mellophone solo in the second tune didn't work and the guy just turned towards the audience and increased his volume and played the solo without the electronic manipulations. So they can play loud enough to be heard, but they can't do the effects they are doing to it without using the mics.

In a way, that's even worse!

Here's my rankings...

1) Blue Devils

2) Santa Clara Vanguard

3) Cadets

4) Blue Stars

5) Boston Crusaders

6) Phantom Regiment

7) Bluecoats

8) Blue Knights

9) Carolina Crown

10) Glassmen

11) Cavaliers

12) Madison Scouts